I have been using the Eluna Graph System for several years, as I like it’s simplicity. As per this post, I graph my ESXi disk temperatures so that I can keep an eye on them. Content of create.sh: #!/bin/bash rrdtool create esxi_disks.rrd \ –start `date +%s` \ –step 300 \ DS:disk1:GAUGE:600:0:U \ DS:disk2:GAUGE:600:0:U \ DS:disk3:GAUGE:600:0:U…

I needed to add a couple of cron jobs to my ESXi box. This is quite a bit more complicated than it needs to be in my opinion, but here’s the procedure. Firstly, I create my script and then store it on my datastore (in my case /vmfs/volumes/datastore2/hp/) Then, I added the following to /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh…

I needed to add a custom firewall rule to my ESXi box, so that it could send email notifications. Firstly, I created an smtp.xml file (see below) and this is stored on one of my datastores (in my case /vmfs/volumes/datastore2/hp/). To make this persistent across reboots add the following lines to: /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh cp /vmfs/volumes/datastore2/hp/smtp.xml /etc/vmware/firewall/…